Scientific Values and Civic Virtues

Noretta Koertge is Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University and editor of A House Built on Sand (OUP, 1998).

• Noretta Koertge, Indiana University: What Science Can Offer Contemporary DemocracyPART 1: The Nexus Between Scientific Values and Civic Virtues1: Noretta Koertge: A Bouquet of Scientific Values2: Steven M. DeLue, Miami University: Public Reason and Democracy: The Place of Science in Maintaining Civic Friendship3: Edward Grant, Indiana University: Reason and Authority in the Middle Ages: the Latin West and Islam4: John C. Moore, Hofstra University: Civic Virtue and Science in Pre-Revolutionary Europe5: Rose-Mary Sargent, Merrimack College: Virtues and the Scientific RevolutionPART II: Values Revealed in the Work of Scientists6: Gerald Holton, Harvard University: Candor and Integrity in Science7: Michael Ruse, Florida State University: Evolutionary Biology an the Question of Trust8: Allan Franklin, University of Colorado: The Rise and Fall of Emil Konopinski's Theory of Decay9: Frederick B. Churchill, Indiana University: The Evolutionary Ethics of Alfred C. KinseyPART III: Sites of Struggle: Downgrading Science while Weakening Democracy10: Keith Parsons, University of Houston, Clear Lake: Defending the Radical Center11: Philip A. Sullivan, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies: Are Universities and Scholarship Now Undermining Modern Democracy?12: Barbara Forrest, Southeastern Louisiana University, and Paul R. Gross, University of Virginia: The Wedge of Intelligent Design: Retrograde Science, Schooling, and Society13: Pervez Hoodbhoy, Quaid-e-Azum University: When Science Teaching Becomes a Subversive Activity14: Meera Nanda, Columbia University: Postmodernism, Hindu Nationalism and 'Vedic Science'